Nathan Fillion on Wikipedia

Nathan Fillion (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian actor. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is reportedly a distant relation of Confederate Civil War general Jubal Early.

After working in several theatre, television and film productions, including the improvised soap opera Die Nasty, Fillion moved to New York City in 1994 where he acted in the soap opera One Life to Live as Joey Buchanan, for which he was nominated in 1996 for a Daytime Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Younger Actor" category. In 1997, he left the series to pursue other projects. After moving to Los Angeles, he played a supporting role in the sitcom Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place. He was cast as "the Minnesota Ryan" in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.

Fillion starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the Joss Whedon science fiction television series Firefly (2002), for which he won the "Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award - Male" award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. Fillion reprised his role as Reynolds in Whedon's movie Serenity (2005). He had a recurring role as Caleb in the final season of Whedon's series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

He has lent his voice to the animated series King of the Hill in 2001, the video game Jade Empire (as the voice of Gao the Lesser), and the animated series Justice League Unlimited (as Vigilante in the episodes "Hunter's Moon" and "Patriot Act") in 2005 and 2006.

Having finished filming the James Gunn horror film Slither, the romantic comedy film Waitress is now in post-production. Fillion is currently filming White Noise 2: The Light.